SCHENECTADY -- Last month, when he turned 18, Terrill Reese Jr. got an Oldsmobile Alero. But his father said the teen really loved his BMX bike.

"That was his passion. That's all he talked about," Terrill Reese Sr. said Monday. "He was too young to die of a tragic gunshot by another stupid young teenager."

Around 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Reese was cut down by a shotgun blast to the chest near the intersection of Watt Street and Tremont Avenue in the city's Central State Street section. Investigators are looking into reports that the killer sped off in a dark-colored vehicle, but no arrests had been made.

Gun violence continued early Monday, when police were summoned to a report of gunfire at Lincoln Avenue in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood. The authorities have said feuding between groups of youngsters from different city neighborhoods may have sparked the incident, but they declined to say if it was linked to Reese's death.

"I don't think anybody decides who lives or dies. That's up to God," said Reese's mother, Shicoah Yarbrough. Sitting on the porch of her Rotterdam home, she said her oldest son, who had attended Schenectady and Mohanasen high schools, took his final GED test just last week. While growing up in Schenectady, Reese played Belmont Pop Warner football and basketball.

Now, a football with the words "I and Everyone will truly miss you, Love Coach Wise" is part of a makeshift memorial on Tremont Avenue. It also contains candles and hats and this message written with a felt-tip marker: "RIP Rell."

On Monday, Reese's maternal grandmother, Tari Bobbitt, said her only grandson always had a smile on his face.